Life's not just about being alive, but being well.
You'll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burrow.
Be merry if you are wise.
Neither fear your death's day nor long for it.
You may envy every one, but no one envies you.
The bee is enclosed, and shines preserved, in a tear of the sisters of Phaeton, so that it seems enshrined in its own nectar. It has obtained a worthy reward for its great toils; we may suppose that the bee itself would have desired such a death.